Hinge.



PATBNTED JULY 7, 1908.

H. ZIMMERMAN.

HINGE.v

APPLICATION FILED 00117, 1907.

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l vvbmeoaco No. 892,491. PATBNTED JULY 7, 1908.

, I H. ZIMMERMAN.

HINGE Cir UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY ZIMMERMAN, OF FREMONT. OHIO.

HINGE Application filed October 17, 1907.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY ZIMMERMAN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Fremont, Sandusky county, State of Ohio,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hinges, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hinges for doors, gates, windows, etc., and consists of a hinge member adapted for attachment to the frame or structure surrounding the door or window, and of such a construction that it can be made at a minimum cost and applied gtllll but little labor and the exercise of little s l In the drawing, Figure 1 shows in perspec tive the member provided with a fixed pintle and adapted for wood frames; Fig. 2, the same as applied to a structure of masonry; Fig. 3 shows the construction where the pintle is a detachable bolt; Fig. 4: illustrates the construction for use where the pintle is on the swinging member; Fig. 5 is a modification where the bracket is adapted to receive a bolt with a perforated swinging member O. Figs. 6, 7 and 8 are views similar to Fig. 1. but showing shanks having shoulders of various cross sections adapted to prevent the shank from turning in the wall or other part in which the hinge is supported.

In each of the constructions illustrated there is a bracket A having a face plate a which is normally vertical, and with which is united the base plate I), or two base plates 1), bias shown in Fig. 5. The base plates b, I), support or form one of the engaging members of the hinge. Thus in Figs. 1 and 2 the base plate supports the pintle or pin (3 which engages the eye of the movable member C, while in Figs. 3 and 5 the base plates are connected with the movable members of the hinge O, O, by means of the detachable bolts (1. In Fig. 4 themovable member of the hinge O has a pintle extending downward into an eye or socket x in the base plate I). In each instance the movable member of the hinge rests upon and is supported by the base plate of the complementary member.

From the bracket, at right angles to the plate a extends a hollow cylindrical shank or sleeve e, andone or more pins or wings f may extend back from the rear face of the plate a and be united at their inner edges to the cylindrical shank e and strengthen the shank and its connection with the plate. These Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July '7, 1908.

Serial No. 397,880.

wings may be in a vertical or other planes a desired. In each of the above constructions the axis of the shank (a, the center from which the wing or wings radiate, and the centers of the plates a and b are all on the same vertical plane so that the article can be readily cast, and this may be done without cores, where the plates a, b, are not buttressed. It is preferable, however, in some cases to brace or buttress the plate 7) by means of side wings i, i, as in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4.

As thus constructed the article can be socured to a wood frame by boring a hole in the latter and driving in the shank until the plate a bears on the face of the frame, the wing cutting its own notch and preventing any rotation of the member. may then be secured by a screw 7 which fits the interior of the shank and projects beyond the same into the wood.

It will be seen that the base plate b is not only at right angles to the face plate a, but that it is directly above the same and above the shank c so that the thrust of the shutter is directly downward upon the shank, thus avoiding the tendency to twist the shank which results if the base plate is carried to one side of the center or axis of the shank.

In the case of a masonry structure, as in Fig. 2, a screw bolt extends through the shank and through an opening bored in the wall. It will be seen that in each construction shown, all the )arts are equally disposed on opposite sides of a vertical plane, and the member can be used with equal facility at the right or left of the opening.

The hinge members illustrated in Figs. 6, 7 and 8 are similar to that illustrated in Fig. 1 excepting as to the means for preventing the shank of the hinge from turning in its support. It will be understood that while a wing, such as is shown in Figs. 1 to 5, is a preferred form of such means, the object may be obtained by the use of any shoulder or projection extending radially from the shank, as by making a part of the shank of polygo nal form, as illustrated in Figs. 6 and 7, or of elliptical form, as illustrated in Fig. 8. In Fig. 6 a shoulder or projectionof rectangular cross section is illustrated; in Fig. 7 a shoulder or projection f 2 of hexagonal cross section is shown; and in Fig. 8 a shoulder or projection f of elliptical cross section is illustrated.

Having described my invention what I The member ent is,

-1. A hinge member comprising a tubular shank adapted to be inserted in a wall or door-frame, a face plate at one end of said shank and at right angles to the axis thereof,

a base plate or support for the complementary I hinge member directly above and at right angles to the face plate, and vertical buttresses connecting the face plate and base plate on opposite sides thereof.

2. A hinge member comprising a tubular shank adapted to be inserted in a wall or door-frame, a face plate at one end of said shank and at right angles to the axis thereof, a base plate or support for the complementary hinge member aboveand at right angles to the face plate, buttresses connecting the face plate and base plate on opposite sides thereof, and a wing extending radially from the tubular shank, in combination with a'screw or bolt extending through the tubular shank into the wall, the head of said screw or bolt bearing on said face plate directly below the base plate.

3. A hinge member comprising a tubular shank, a face plate at right angles to the axis of the shank, a base plate or support for the complementary hinge member arranged above and at right angles to the face plate, and a wing extending longitudinally of the shank and connected at the forward end to the back of the face plate.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HARRY ZIMMERMAN.

Witnesses:

MARIE KLOPFER, FRANK C. KIsER. 

